Rick Meier

blackberries, painted by amanda almira newton, 1910

blackberries, painted by amanda almira newton, 1910

Chives: Eight hair-like threads. Tips beard-
less, within the blossom. Seed-bud globular, furrowed, hairy. Shaft thread-shaped, just within the blossom.
Summit headed.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of March till June.

Flowers terminate the smaller branches, making a long, close bunch; foot-stalks hardly any; floral leaves close to the blossom. Cup four-leaved, leaflets egg-shaped, tapered, toothed, and pressed to the blossom. Blossom club-shaped, white, transparent, hairy; segments blunt, upright.

Stem shrubby, upright; branches few, upright, smaller branches numerous, very short, hairy. Leaves grow by threes, linear, fringed, straight out, furrowed beneath, with very short foot-stalks, pressed to the branches.

Erica Linnæa. Heath with beardleſs tips, within the blossim; blossoms club-shaped, hairy, and white; flowers almost without foot-stalks, terminate the smaller branches, forming long bunches; the leaflets of the cup are toothed; leaves grow by threes, are linear, fringed, and crowded together.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from August, till November.*

Chives: Eight hair-like threads turned inwards at the top. Tips beardless, within the blossom. 

Pointal: Seed-bud nearly egg-shaped, eight-furrowed, glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.

Empalement: Cup four-leaved, leaflets between egg and lance-shaped, points a little reflexed, hairy and clammy. Blossom tubularly club-shaped, an inch long, hairy, of a red-purple colour, and clammy; segments upright.

Leaves grow by fixes, linear, harsh, spreading, sawed like a fringe at margin; with very short foot-stalks pressed to the stem. Flowers grow nearly terminal at the top of the branches in whorls, spreading; foot-stalks short, with three floral leaves.

Stem shrubby, upright, a foot and a half high; branches upright, ample; small branches few, grow upright-spreading.

Erica Atlanta. Heath with crested tips just within the blossom, flowers headed nodding and bell-shaped, branches and leaves hispid, the latter in fours and linear.

sixes*

Chives: Eight hair-like threads. Tips bearded, and within the blossom.

Seed-bud: nearly globular, glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, within the blossom. Summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from April, ’till July.*

Cup: four-leaved, leaflets egg-shaped, pointed, skinny at the edge, and pressed to the blossom.

Blossom: cylindrical, narrowed at the top, squared and furrowed at the base, an inch long, of a whitish green, and dark green at the end.

foot-stalks curved, having three skinny floral leaves on them.

Leaves of the small branches grow mostly by fours, those on the large by fixes, linear, smooth, curved, pointed, spreading; with very short foot-stalks, pressed to the Item.Flowers grow at the top of the branches, close to the stem, in spikes, tiled, hanging down;

Stem shrubby, very upright, grows three feet high; the large branches are few and upright; the small branches grow in whorles and are simple.

Erica gelida. Heath with bearded tips within the blossom; flowers grow whorled, in spikes, hanging down; blossoms an inch long, cylindrical, of a whitish green, four-furrowed at the base and narrowed at the mouth, which is dark-green; leaves grow by fours or fixes, curved, spreading and smooth.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 

Flowers from August, till November.*

Seed-bud nearly egg-shaped, eight-furrowed, glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.

Chives: eight hair-like threads turned inwards at the top. Tips beardless, within the blossom.

Cup: four-leaved, leaflets between egg and lance-shaped, points a little reflexed, hairy and clammy. Blossom tubularly club-shaped, an inch long, hairy, of a red-purple colour, and clammy; segments upright.

Flowers grow nearly terminal at the top of the branches in whorls, spreading; foot-stalks short, with three floral leaves.

Leaves grow by fixes, linear, harsh, spreading, sawed like a fringe at margin; with very short foot-stalks pressed to the stem.

Stem shrubby, upright, a foot and a half high; branches upright, ample; small branches few, grow upright-spreading.

blossoms tubularly club-shaped, hairy, of a red-purple colour and an inch long; leaves grow by fixes, harsh and sawed at the edge as if fringed.

Erica archeria. Heath with beardless tips within the blossom, shaft without; flowers nearly terminate the branches in whorls;

Forest Landscape

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*from COLOURED ENGRAVINGS OF HEATHS by H. C. Andrews (Vol. I, London: Published by the Author, No. 5 Knightsbridge, Printed by R. Taylor and Co. 38, Shoe Lane. 1805.)